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“I want to be part of the right slanted movement in rulingour democratic republic. I believe the ‘movement’ is by the ‘salt of the earth’ persons who believe in God and the freedoms of citizens of any country.”

Monarchs rule.

Elected Representatives serve.

Christianity is a personal choice. It is not a State mandate. Religion is of conscience. It cannot be forced upon a people or a person. One must accept Christianity for it to be a reality. If Christians force their religion upon humankind via State Force, they are no better than the Soviet Communist or Wahhabi Islamist.

I’m not certain why American Christians cannot comprehend this.

I was fairly certain that Hillary had lost when she was nominated. Back around September of last year, I knew that Trump would be elected.

Conservative Christians did not win this election. Liberalism was repudiated by a slight majority with the election of Trump. More people, in my opinion, voted against Hillary than for Trump.

I have seen wisdom come from both the Left and the Right. I have witnessed it elsewhere as well. There is wisdom in the philosophies of Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Wicca, Conservatism, Communitarianism and Communism as well as Liberalism and Christianity. I have witnessed it. There is wisdom in humanity.

The Liberals should back off. I said the same thing of Conservatives in the Obama era. I warned Liberals to be wary of their vindictiveness and to be especially careful with the precedents set by their Dear Leader Obama. None heeded the call. Now they will reap what they have sown.

Such is the way of the world. The masses rarely ever learn. Four to Twelve years from now, the pendulum will swing back to the Liberals. Will Conservatives have learned the necessary lessons or will they be as arrogant as they and their Liberal counterparts have always been.

I think the arrogance will remain. The Right and Left have become blind and deaf to all others. This is why they constantly lose Middle America and find themselves out of office and in the minority so often. The Democrats and Republicans never learn. They are 20% or so on either side of the political fringe. The Great Middle swings back and forth as they have no other choice. They tire of one and flock to the other. They tire of that one and flock to the other side. This has been American Politics since the founding of the two party system.

Elected Representatives do not rule the American Republic. Elected Representatives serve. When they fail to serve, they are voted out.

Those who seek to rule are no better than the despots of Saudi Arabia.

She shamed women who her husband ACTUALLY sexually assaulted. She did that. She didn’t have to do it. Yet, she did. She destroyed women to further her ambitions. She did not care about Bill “grabbing pussies” and getting blow jobs in the Oval Office right down the hall. No, she cared about her career and she destroyed any obstacle, human or otherwise, which dared stand in her way.

The enduring image of Mrs. Clinton from that campaign was a “60 Minutes” interview in which she told the country she was not blindly supporting her husband out of wifely duty. “I’m not sitting here, some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette,” she said.

If you are voting for Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton, you are mentally unstable. If you can rationalize a vote for either of these monsters, you are, yourself, a monster.

But privately, she embraced the Clinton campaign’s aggressive strategy of counterattack: Women who claimed to have had sexual encounters with Mr. Clinton would become targets of digging and discrediting — tactics that women’s rights advocates frequently denounce.

There is no excuse.

Criticizing the one whilst defending the other makes you a hypocrite. Nothing can change that.

Voting for either of these creatures means that you suck as a human being.

“It was a reaction of no surprise, but immediate anger and action,” said Ms. Sheehy, who also described her observations in a Vanity Fair article that year. “Not anger at Bill, but at Flowers, the press and Republicans.”

Back on a plane that night, Mrs. Clinton told Ms. Sheehy that if she were to question Ms. Flowers in front of a jury, “I would crucify her.”

Trayvon Martin had nothing to do with gun control. Doesn’t fit. The Martin-Zimmerman hullabaloo was all about Stand Your Ground Laws. Even though Black folks benefit more from the “Stand Your Ground” laws in this nation, the Left will tell you that these laws are racist. The only time that race comes into the question is when it is a Black Male shooting a White Male. In those instances, Black Males are at a cultural disadvantage when it comes to Stand Your Ground laws. The Left won’t tell you the full story. One has to research this to find the truth. The Right doesn’t want to talk about that last bit either.

The oddest bit about the Martin-Zimmerman contrivance was that Zimmerman isn’t a White Person. He is Half-Hispanic. If Half Black Obama is Black, why is Half Hispanic Zimmerman White? That is the Left in action. Duplicity. Hypocrisy.

There have been approximately 9,000 Black on Black murders since Trayvon Martin was killed by Zimmerman. Have you heard about this? No, you haven’t. Why? Why does the left not use this as part of their Gun Control dialogue? Maybe they don’t want to seem racist by highlighting Black on Black crime. It’s taboo. Discussing Black crime will see one branded a racist by the Left. They can’t very well have an open dialogue about this issue if they won’t allow anyone else to honestly and openly discuss it.

Black people in America suffer from gun violence so disproportionately as to be nearly unfathomable. However, we can’t discuss this. One problem is that discussing race is taboo in the Age of Obama and “post-racial America.” The Democrats have painted themselves into a corner. They won’t allow anyone else to discuss it. This makes it nearly impossible for the Left to discuss it. When Black leaders discuss it, they are marginalized and called Uncle Tom’s because “How dare they jump off message and out of the Democratic Plantation!”

America ignores the violence challenge of Black communities. The only reason that Trayvon Martin received any press was that incident’s availability to the Left as a racial baton with which to bash America, the Red States, WHITEY, Red Necks and those who failed to obey by voting for Barack Obama. If it weren’t for the political usefulness of Trayvon and his hoody, no Democrat in America would have given it one second’s thought. That includes Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton who are the greatest race pimps in the history of mankind.

I will concede that Martin was murdered. The reasons that I assign are quite different. The Media has been portraying Black people on the news, TV and in movies as violent and out of control. Reminders of Watts and Rondey King and O.J. Simpson are ubiquitous. Black people are portrayed most often on TV as gang banging, hoody wearing animals on TV. TV shows such as The Wire, Southland, The Shield and more portray all Black people as either corrupt or violent. There are very few positive Black characters on television or in the movies. The News may as well show pictures of Fallujah when they speak about Detroit or Chicago and it’s Black denizens.

With that in mind, White people start to see Black people as they are portrayed. This country is only 13 to 15% “African American.” Most White people have never had meaningful interaction with Black people. They know of Hollywood stars, rappers, assorted other artists and Sports figures who are Black. We’ve all heard of Marion Barry and Roy Nagin, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. For many White people, these people ARE Black People or “African Americans.” This picture of Black America is informed by the news which is always about violence (if it bleeds, it leads) or corruption. If this was the only thing that you knew about a group of people, how would you react when you encountered them.

I’ve known Black folks my whole life. I worked with Black folks in the Army. I work with Black folks overseas in Afghanistan and
elsewhere. I’ve had very few violent encounters with Black folks. The one truly violent and racial encounter that I had with Black people was in Baumholder, Germany. I was jumped by eight black guys who thought that I was alone. They jumped me and tried to beat me down while calling me a “dirty ——ing CRACKA!” and “F—-ing Honkey” and that sort of thing. One of them yelled; “I got your massa’ right here” as he hit me with a brick in the face. I yelled for my friends who were around the corner. They came to my aid. Two of those friends were Black guys. We rough them off together. I’m proud to say that I broke one of their shoulders with the brick with which they had earlier hit me.

How does one hate Black people for a bigoted beating attempt when those who came to your aid were also Black? It’s kind of difficult.
This leads me back to WHITEY and the Gun Control Crowd. There have been somewhere around 80 “mass gun murders” in the past decade killing approximately 200 people. Primarily WHITE people.

In that same time frame, there have been thousands of BLACK folks killed in America.

I find this interesting. I, also, find it further proof of the duplicity and callous bigotry of the DNC. Race is only a problem in America when it is convenient to the Democratic National Party. If race cannot be politicized, it is rarely raised as an issue. This is the very definition of hypocrisy. This is the Democratic National Party or Committee as it is called.

P.S. Now think about all of the Police murders in Black communities. The numbers are bewildering. But let us not talk about this. We’ll be branded “extremists” by the transparent Obama Administration.

The only way to end this is to go to a one vote policy. Each person gets one vote.

This will entail taking the money out of politics. Money is not speech. Money is bribery.

Every politician who takes campaign donations from any source other than individuals should be impeached for their unethical practices. That which is legal is not always ethical just as that which is illegal is not always unethical. Many of our laws in America amount to no more than legalization of corruption. Many of our laws amount to little more than legislatively outlawing beneficial substances such as Hemp based on corrupt influences.

Take, for instance, GMO corn vs hemp. Hemp could save human beings millions. Hemp would be good for the environment or not as harmful as chopping down trees. However, we have corporations in America which would lose money and whole industries that would go out of business if we switched to hemp. Hemp would benefit millions of Americans.

Conversely, GMO corn benefits a few billionaires such as the Monsanto gang of thugs. GMO corn causes huge problems for small farms and farmers in that, if one GMO genetically altered seeds fall into a small farmers crop, that farmer is legally liable to pay fees to Monsanto.

That should be the other way around. If GMO corn seed or seed of any type infects the crops of a farmer close to the Monsanto fields, Monsanto should be liable to the farmer for spreading their disease ridden pestilence.

GMOs profit the few at the expense of the many. Why? Because of bribes which are legally termed “campaign donations.”

The FCC supposedly owns the airwaves. Each candidate running for office should be alloted two weekly 15 minute time slots. That is all. Each politician should be allowed a website and allowed to create a facebook and twitter account. Each politician should be made to conduct town hall meetings to explain their platform.

No politician should be allowed to take monies from Corporations.

No SuperPacs should be allowed. These SuperPacs should be legislatively banned.

If a commercial is aired in support of a candidate, the sponsoring entity should be made plain. At the bottom of the screen, there should be, in bold, the Corporate Logos and Names of each sponsor.

This would make plain why a candidate is being sponsored.

No corporation should be able to directly or indirectly donate campaign funds to a political candidate.

It is time to take the corruption out of politics. It is time that we have a 3rd and 4th party in America. It is time for real transparency. Not the faux Obama Hope and Change transparency. It is time to hold politicians accountable. If that means jailing a President after an impeachment and trial, fine. Good.

I don’t care to what party a candidate pretends to be loyal. At this time, they are all loyal to the Party of Greed. Yes, even Obama.

Less than half of America believes that the political parties are good for this nation. Less than half of America are loyal to the DNC and GOP.

How are these two parties representative of America if they cannot, will not and will never represent more than half of the populace.

This is not Democracy. This is not representation. The only “people” being represented in today’s America are the Banks and Corporations.

Yet, individuals amounting to roughly 40% of America believe that the political parties are who is needed to run this country.

From what I can see, these partisans and their corrupt parties are running America into the ground.

The real traitors in America are not Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden. The real traitors are members of and voters for the GOP and DNC.

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“So it should be no surprise that “follow the money” beginning at the local level should extend to the formulation of US foreign policy, where money also talks. Adelson wants a war? He just might get it if he backs the right GOP horse. And don’t think for a second that a President Hillary will be any different. She also has monied interests behind her who wouldn’t mind seeing Iran get its comeuppance. Where is the peace candidate? Looking for money”.

Here are nine acts of real change that would begin to rebuild the American people’s confidence that Republicans share their values, understand their worries, and are prepared to act instead of just talk. The Republicans in Congress could get a start on all nine this week if they had the will to do so.

Repeal the gas tax for the summer, and pay for the repeal by cutting domestic discretionary spending so that the transportation infrastructure trust fund would not be hurt. At a time when, according to The Hill newspaper, Senator Clinton is asking for $2.3billion in earmarks, it should be possible for Republicans to establish a “government spending versus your pocketbook” fight over cutting the gas tax that would resonate with most Americans. Lower taxes and less government spending should be a battle cry most taxpayers and all conservatives could rally behind.

Redirect the oil being put into the national petroleum reserve onto the open market. That oil would lower the price of gasoline an extra 5 to 6 cents per gallon, and its sale would lower the deficit.

Introduce a “more energy at lower cost with less environmental damage and greater national security bill” as a replacement for the Warner-Lieberman “tax and trade” bill which is coming to the floor of the Senate in the next few weeks (see my newsletter next week for an outline of a solid pro-economy, pro-national security, pro-environment energy bill). When the American people realize how much the current energy prices are actually a “politicians’ energy crisis” they will demand real change in our policies.

Establish an earmark moratorium for one year and pledge to uphold the presidential veto of bills with earmarks through the end of 2009. The American people are fed up with politicians spending their money. They currently believe both parties are equally bad. This is a real opportunity to show the difference.

Overhaul the census and cut its budget radically. The recent announcement that the Census Bureau could not build an effective hand-held computer for $1.3 billion and is turning instead to 600,000 temporary workers to do a paper and pencil census in 2010 is an opportunity to slash its budget, shrink its bureaucracy, and turn to entrepreneurial internet-based companies to build an information-age census. This is an absurdity that cries out for bold, decisive reform (see my YouTube video “FedEx versus federal bureaucracy” for an example of what I mean).

Implement a space-based, GPS-style air traffic control system. The problems of the Federal Aviation Administration are symptoms of a union-dominated bureaucracy resisting change. If we implemented a space-based GPS-style air traffic system we would get 40% more air travel with one-half the bureaucrats. The union has stopped 200,000,000 passengers from enjoying more reliable air travel to protect 7,000 obsolete jobs. This real change would allow the millions of frustrated travelers to have champions in congress trying to help them get places better, safer, faster.

Declare English the official language of government. This real change is supported by 87% of the American people including a majority of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and Latinos. It is an issue of national unity that brings Americans together in a red, white, and blue majority.

Protect the workers’ right to a secret ballot. The vast majority (around 81%) of Americans believe that American workers have a right to have a secret ballot election before they are forced to join a union. Last year the House Democrats passed a bill that would strip American workers of the secret ballot. A new bill should be introduced reaffirming that right, and it should be brought up again and again until marginal Democrats are forced to vote with the American people against the union power structure.

Remind Americans that judges matter. Senate Republicans should mount an ongoing fight (including a filibuster of other activities if necessary) to get the American people to realize that liberals want to block all current judicial appointments in order to maximize the number of left wing radical judges they can appoint if they win the White House. This issue has three advantages. It reminds people that judges matter and that a leftwing radical Supreme Court would be bad for the values of most (70 to 90 percent, depending on the issue) Americans. It shows the Democrats are not engaged in fair play. It arouses the activism of those who have been disappointed by Republicans and have forgotten how bad a liberal Democratic Presidency would be.